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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm
This working paper contributes to the burgeoning historical literature that has transformed our understanding about the relationship between big business and the environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; History; Sweden
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  • February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Elasto Therm: The Next Step

By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Sales Force Management; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • 03 Oct 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Chad Syverson, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Web

Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Outcomes and cost are measured for every patient. Aligning Reimbursement with Value Reimbursement models that reward both better outcomes and View Details
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus
  • January 1998
  • Case

Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corporation (B)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Massimo Russo and Steven J. Spear
Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corp. (CSSC), a 50-year-old spring manufacturing and metal stamping firm, is experiencing slow sales growth and feeling the impact of global competition. The company has over 800 customers but little understanding of those customers'... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Competency and Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Production; Customer Relationship Management; Quality; Training; Performance Efficiency; Cost Management; Sales; System
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  • 09 Jan 2024
  • In Practice

Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

contexts demonstrated that generative AI has the potential to enhance productivity (speed and efficiency of task completion), quality (precision in execution), and creativity (albeit with limitations). Notably, the simulation of synthetic... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

would create net benefits for society that contain salient costs frequently lack enough support for enactment because losses loom larger than gains. To address this consequence of loss aversion, we propose a policy-bundling technique in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Business & Environment

experience the effects of climate change – predicted by scientists over 50 years ago – business is vital. Campus Sustainability Learn about our environmental stewardship, greenhouse gas reduction, and broad efforts to realize cost savings... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

Molded) grommet, was supported heavily by the product development group because it was simpler to design and improved the leak seat. Process development was against using it because it cost more, complicated the manufacturing process, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

home-building concentrated in low-income neighborhoods, Patrimonio Hoy has generated recognition and goodwill for the company. Its innovative approach reduces significantly the cost and time needed by the poor to improve their housing.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Technology & Operations Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Working Paper Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science By: Fabio Bertolotti, Kyle R. Myers and Wei Yang... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

well-being offerings, only 23 percent of employees use them. The same pattern also applies to physical and financial well-being programs. Worse, many companies are wasting precious financial resources on ineffective programs. Meanwhile, they suffer the View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
  • 13 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Intermediaries for the IP Market

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • Web

Lifelong Learning - Alumni

the health care industry Re: Lorin Gresser (MBA 1998); By: Jen McFarland Flint 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China Re: Laura Alfaro (Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration (Leave... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

for our tax system. For example, we might want to split the costs of government equally among all taxpayers, letting each of us keep whatever income we earn above our fair share. Or, we might want our tax system to reinforce social and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace